multi-system drive backup

Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

multi-system drive backup

Posted by Donato M. rondinelli on May 8, 2006 at 4:15 pm

I have 3 FCP systems & been having lots of problems on one of the macs. I now see the need for systems backups. Downtime is a major concern and I want to be up & running asap.

What do you guys/gals do about backups on multiple systems?

I have a couple copies of Retrospect. I could back them up to a large firewire drive, but I’m thinking that the transfer would take too long, would it?

Would it be better to have 3 separate SATA drives each in its own external firewire case and swap out the drive with the bad one? Any issues with the mac recognizing the drive clone? Recommendations on this scenario?

Thanks for the advice!

-dMR

Donato M. rondinelli replied 20 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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Bob Flood
May 8, 2006 at 4:36 pm

Hey Donato
we have a company wide server that we copy our projects and key info data to. right now we do it manually, but i have read and seen lots of shareware and freeware utilities designe to synchronize 2 files, folders, or even entire discdrives. Once i get a minute or 10 i am gonna set up a script so it can happen automatically. there is one called disc order i am looking at right now, but go to versiontracker.com and see whats there

i would reccomend backing up to a server with some kind of self recovery raid. it may be a big chunk o change at the outset, but its alot faster to restore etc from the raid than from a tape. and you dont necessarily have to go with apple servers either. we use a quantum snap,a nd it speaks os x jes fine

hope this helps

bee eph

btw if you are having lotsa crashes i would try and fix that first

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.
Donato M. rondinelli
May 8, 2006 at 5:11 pm

Bob,

a) Sorry for the silly question but does this back up method apply to the Apple system drive? My Quadcore has been in & out of the shop two times. Everything has been swapped out for new parts except for the steel case. I love how Mac can zero in on the problem 🙂 With that said, I want to clone the system drive in each computer to avoid future problems and the many hours it takes to load back in FCS, plugins, AE, PS, MS OFFICE, ect.

b) Is you Edit* system still up & running? Do you use it?

-dMR

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